When asked by Bash whether this attack could be the work of the Islamic State terror organization, Graham, a member of the Senate armed services committee, responded, "I would be shocked if it's not at least inspired." "Whether or not it's command and control, I don't know," said Graham, noting that there will be a briefing later. "The question is what can we learn from this. I think Secretary [of State John] Kerry spoke very eloquently about the people who died and they are martyrs for the right causes. But people in your business need to be concerned. You're soft targets and they hate the idea of [the media] being able to tell a story."

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It is entirely possibly that Huckleberry finally has passed into The Land Beyond Facts, never to return. Does he think that journalists already don't know? Wasn't Tareq Ayoublesson enough? Both James Foley and Steven Sotloff, beheaded by ISIS, were journalists. In my other life, there is not a sportswriter I know who isn't fully aware that it's our job to go to large gatherings of people that are both well-publicized and regularly scheduled. But that's not the worst of what Huckleberry burbled from under the bed.

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We're soft targets? When was the last time these maniacs hit a "hard" target? The London subway? The Boston Marathon? The Canadian parliament building? A shopping mall in Kenya? None of these things are exactly NORAD. The shoe bomber and the underwear bomber tried to hit airplanes. Indeed, in 2001, the World Trade Center was not a "hard" target. (In fact, it can be argued, and not just purely for amusement purposes, that, due to negligence all the way from the top, the entire country was a soft target throughout that summer.) If it's all the same to Huckleberry, I'll just stay over here at the punchbowl and let other people tend to his vapors.